Command line to install additionnal softs

[crissc]

Hi,

Could someone give me any piece of advice about how to know the 'real' name of a package to be installed.
For example I wanted to install XFCE as Desktop Manager. So I tried urpmi xfce4, urpmi xfce... but none of these were the right name, I had to look at xfce.org to find out the name of the main package to install.
Is there any way to find out easily the names to be used to install the needed softwares ?

Thanks

[gohlip]

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$ urpmq --fuzzy xfce

but why not use MCC?

[crissc]

Thanks gohlip,
But that means this command lists every packages including xfce in their name, but I still don't know which one of these could be the "main" package which would install the rest.

I don't know MCC, will have a look on it.

[crissc]

In fact yes I know what MCC is, but I don't think it's much esear to use than the command line.
Anyway, the MCC gives not a better result when searching about XFCE for example.

[martinw]

For the various DEs, and for a few other useful groups of packages, Mageia provides "meta-packages". The meta-package name normally starts with "task-", so, for example, the XFCE meta-package is named "task-xfce".

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urpmq --fuzzy "task-"


is a good way of finding what other meta-packages are available.